May19^th is an important Date in the New Afrikan, Pan-African, Black history of struggle that we must never let slip into oblivion.  It is the birthday of OMOWALE MALCOLMX, EL HAIJ MALIK SHABAZZ - Our teacher who taught us to embrace Global Pan-Africanism while at the same time as we evolved into proud New Afrikans. 

For the past 20 years, New Afrikan people have honored Malcolm X in Atlanta.  By holding this festival, we continue an important tradition – educating future generations about his principles and values. 

It is a process that must be maintained in light of the elated feeling among our people with the election of Barack Hussein Obama as president of the United States.  In this euphoric state of mind we must never forget our Black prince, Malcolm X, who educated us in the science of political power – nationally and internationally, and for that, weare what we’ve become today.

 Picture of Jahahara Al Kebulan Ma'at in Geneva, Switzerland for the International Demonstration Against Racism for the Durban Review Conference Saturday, April 18, 2009

 NAPO/MXGM Statement in Support of N’COBRA

 MXGM Principle of Unity - We demand Reparations, or repayment for four hundred years of slavery colonialism and oppression of our people in the United States of America.

The New Afrikan Peoples Organization (NAPO) and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) solute the continued work of N’COBRA in demanding reparations from the US empire. The work of N’COBRA has never been more important as the U.S.continues to deny the historic and current conditions of Afrikans in the U.S. as an outcome of the exploitation and genocidal acts enacted against Afrikans by the government in collusion with its white citizenry. These crimes, too numerous to mention, have never been compensated in spite of the fact that the US has paid compensation to Native American Nations and Japanese Americans (however paltry and insufficient). Even now, with a President of Afrikan descent, the U.S. government is doing everything within its power to bury the issue of reparations and deny that the trans-Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery are crimes against humanity as declared in the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action. The U.S. refuses to engage in critical United Nations proceedings seeking to address restitution and reparations for colonialism, enslavement, and institutionalized racism like the Durban Review Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland in April 2009.

The vast majority of Afrikan people in the U.S. are still at the bottom of every major social indicator of wealth and progress in this country. No honest assessment of these conditions can come to any other conclusion except that these conditions are the direct result of discriminatory policies endorsed andenforced by the government.

N’COBRA has kept reparations alive and well in the consciousness of Afrikan people. It has led the fight and the demand that compensation is due when one nation entraps, enslaves and oppresses a people. And further, when those people fight back and resist those people are freedom fighters and when captured are Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War and should be treated as such under international law. Today the U.S. still holds many of our captured Freedom Fighters in prison as Political Prisoners, but refuses to recognize them assuch, in accordance with international law. Again N’COBRA has recognized and put at the forefront of the demand for reparations, the freedom of our political prisoners. N’COBRA recognizes that no people can be free or liberated unless they remember and continue to struggle to free its fighters behind enemy lines. We recognize N’COBRA's historic and current work in this struggle and wish it continued strength in this long and difficult work. We continue to pledge our full support for its efforts to repair and reunite our people.

Free the Land By Any Means Necessary!

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

New Afrikan People’s Organization

Friday, June 5, 2009

(See N'COBRA Announcement in the Read More section)  

Atlanta, Georgia

A genuine peoples victory was won on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, the 84th Birthday of Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz). The people’s lawyer, attorney Chokwe Lumumba, was elected to the City Council in Jackson, Mississippi representing Ward 2. 

The foundation of this victory was laid by the decades of dedicated community service and organizing that Attorney Lumumba, the New Afrikan People’s Organization (NAPO), and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) have engaged in Jackson. The victory was secured through the broad mass mobilization and fundraising efforts of the campaigns organizers, supporters and allies in Jackson and throughout the United States. 

By electing Lumumba the residents of Ward 2 declared that they want a new leadership committed to their social and economic interests, and that of the City, with a proven ability to organize, motivate, and educate for positive change. By organizing themselves into People’s Assemblies in support of the election campaign, the people of Ward 2 have begun to build and exercise the power necessary to address their needs and solve the problems of their ward. Through the vehicle of the People’s Assembly the residents of Ward 2 have determined that the People’s Platform is THEIR Platform. 

A new, independent, and potentially transformative force is being built in Jackson through the combined power of the Council office and the People’s Assembly. This force will not be bound by the confines of the two-party system. The building of this force will advance the development of a genuine participatory democracy that will help our people fulfill all their human rights, including the economic, social and cultural rights so often denied in the United States. 

We hope this victory and the development of this model will not only inspire but also help build a new force in Black and progressive politics in the United States, one that will put the needs of people and the environment before profits. The victory on May 19th was just the first step. Now the hard work of utilizing the limited political power this victory enables to transform Ward 2 and the entire city of Jackson and beyond begins. We hope everyone who reads and or hears about this victory will pass on this critical news and join us in the concrete work of building viable alternatives for the people of Ward 2, Jackson, the South and entire country by any means necessary! 

Committee to Elect Chokwe Lumumba
New Afrikan People’s Organization (NAPO)
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM)

Wednesday, May 27, 2009  

 The People's Lunch Counter and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement presents RBG Block Party. 

 August 30, 2009

11 am - 9 pm

Rochester Park

300 Municipal Street 

Dallas, Texas 75215 

For more information call 817.323.7270 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Also visit www.thepeopleslunchcounter.vpweb.com.